MTV's breakout hit Jersey Shore will be back for another summer. Vinny spilled to a reporter:

"They want us to do another season." Oh, and if you want the crew to show up at your club, you'll need about $30,000. Want just Snooki? That's $7500. Or you could get The Situation or Pauly D. for the same price. [Gatecrasher]

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Breaking: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are "totally normal," because they went to a dive bar on the Isle Of Wight for New Year's Eve. [LA Times]

Avatar is now the number two all-time grossing movie, right behind James Cameron's other flick, Titanic. [Deadline Hollywood]

From his home in Switzerland, Roman Polanski has written a letter, asking a Los Angeles judge to sentence him in his absence. [Mirror, LA Times]

Robin Wright was seen spending the holidays in Mexico with a "handsome, dark-haired man." The Dread Pirate Roberts? [Page Six]

Paris Hilton might get married. We know this because she says: "I wouldn't rule out a wedding in 2010." [Mirror]

A former Playboy model named Loredana Jolie is "ready" to publish a tell-all book about her trysts with Tiger Woods, taking "intensive" golf lessons and planning to go on the amateur tournament circuit. [Page Six]

James Franco will squint his way through 127 Hours, the film about Aron Ralston, the man who spent five days with his right arm pinned under a boulder and finally cut off his own limb with a dull knife. Slumdog's Danny Boyle is directing the cheerful tale. [Variety]

A Bachelor contestant denies having an affair with a Bachelor producer, saying: "I did not have a sexual relationship with a producer on the show. What they mean by inappropriate relationship is not what inappropriate relationship means in the real world… I had a relationship with someone on the show that didn't benefit them… We remained really close but we are not dating now." [Radar Online]

Artie Lange was in the hospital over the weekend after cutting himself nine times in a suicide attempt. [Page Six]

Saoirse Ronan of Atonement and The Lovely Bones is in talks to play a teenage assassin in a flick called Hanna. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Blind items! "Which action star was lying when he said recently he'd never have plastic surgery? The actor has obviously had his eyes done in the last year or two, judging by the way his crow's feet magically disappeared… Which best-selling, but slow-writing, author had some help finishing his latest novel? A translator for one of the potboiler's foreign editions noticed from the shifting syntax and sentence structure that the book was penned by at least two writers… Which heiress who married a mob-connected artist years ago is now claiming to old friends that her husband is conspiring with shady lawyers and doctors to declare her insane and seize all her money?" [Page Six]

"I find myself meditating on Kleenex and thinking about how it used to be a tree and what will I be, and sometimes I feel like my soul is blowing its nose on my body, so somehow a title came out about that." — Devendra Banhart on his new album, What Will Be. [Rolling Stone]

"I never cared about the whole, 'I hate to be famous. I'm going to go brood somewhere because people bought my record.' I've never subscribed to that. I've subscribed to the idea that fame just for the sake of fame is pretty disgusting and worthless so it became about being famous for the right reasons. And that was what the hardest part for a couple years there - determining if what we were doing was good or if it wasn't. People coming up to you like, 'Yeah, the Backstreet Boys sell a lot of records, too. What does that mean?' So we were confused on that level. We didn't really know what we were doing, if it was going to stand the test of time or if people would look at the band as nothing but novelty." — Jack White on The White Stripes. He also says: "I love hip-hop if it's done with a sense of the blues, even if the person who is creating it isn't thinking that at all. I think Jay-Z is just incredible. The Black Album is one of the best albums of the decade." [Rolling Stone]

"I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic — a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters. Now, it doesn't matter what you're making a movie about; everyone thinks their movie is so brilliant that it has to be three hours long. Not to be critical but… well, we all know which movies those are." — Ethan Hawke. [LA Times]

"There is no script yet. I don't think they know when they're going to shoot because... it all depends on that. It's just really cool because I love being around those people. I love Mitch Hurwitz and I think he is going to direct it. He is someone who means a lot to me. He's just a really big inspiration to me. I am really looking forward to working with him as a director. Also, all those people are really good people. I am excited to get to be around them all at once." — Michael Cera, on the Arrested Development movie. [Pop Wrap]

"I love it. I think she looks amazing. I'm not gonna lie, she looks really good. It's '80s meets 2010 — she has the party in the back and short in the front. She looks so much better now than she did three or four years ago." — Hailey Glassman on Kate Gosselin's hairdo, as seen on the cover of People. [ET]